Parody based on “The Theory Jack Built” from A Space Child’s Mother Goose (1958) by Frederick Winsor
This is the Government Trump built.
This is the Flaw
That lay in the Government Trump built.
This is the President's Bullshit Retort
Hiding the Flaw
That lay in the Government Trump built.
This is the Fox News Network Report
That was based on the President's Bullshit Retort
Hiding the Flaw
That lay in the Government Trump built.
These are the Lobbyists from Street K
Who promoted the Fox News Network Report
That was based on the President's Bullshit Retort
Hiding the Flaw
That lay in the Government Trump built.
This is the Speciously Verbal Haze
Used by the Lobbyists from Street K
Who promoted the Fox News Network Report
That was based on the President's Bullshit Retort
Hiding the Flaw
That lay in the Government Trump built.
This is the Turn of Implausible Phrase
That thickened the Speciously Verbal Haze
Used by the Lobbyists from Street K
Who promoted the Fox News Network Report
That was based on the President's Bullshit Retort
Hiding the Flaw
That lay in the Government Trump built.
This is Chaotic Confusion and Bluff
That hung on the Turn of Implausible Phrase
That thickened the Speciously Verbal Haze
Used by the Lobbyists from Street K
Who promoted the Fox News Network Report
That was based on the President's Bullshit Retort
Hiding the Flaw
That lay in the Government Trump built.
This is the News Cycle that's never enough
That covered the Chaotic Confusion and Bluff
That hung on the Turn of Implausible Phrase
That thickened the Speciously Verbal Haze
Used by the Lobbyists from Street K
Who promoted the Fox News Network Report
That was based on the President's Bullshit Retort
Hiding the Flaw
That lay in the Government Trump built.
This is the Ballot for Voting Events
Covered by the News Cycle that's never Enough
That covered the Chaotic Confusion and Bluff
That hung on the Turn of Implausible Phrase
That thickened the Speciously Verbal Haze
Used by the Lobbyists from Street K
Who promoted the Fox News Network Report
Based on the President's Bullshit Retort
Hiding the Flaw
That lay in the Government Trump built.
This is the Voter with Brow Intense
Who submitted their Ballot for Voting Events
Ignoring the News Cycle that's never enough
Without Confusion, exposing the Bluff
That hung on the Turn of Implausible Phrase
Shredding the Speciously Verbal Haze
Used by the Lobbyists from Street K
Wrecking the Fox News Network Report
Based on the President's Bullshit Retort
Exposing the Flaw
And demolishing the Government Trump built.
This poem is a parody I wrote based on “The Theory Jack Built” from A Space Child’s Mother Goose by Frederick Winsor originally published in 1958. That poem is itself a parody based on the old British nursery rhyme “The House Jack Built”. Original work is released under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA which lets others remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.